No, this headline is not from 1959!
Just found it today from WNDU.com in South Bend, Indiana
A get-rich-quick scheme turns out to be a scam, and one South Bend resident avoids being taken for a ride. It’s an old-fashioned scam that’s hit nearly every state in the country - including Indiana.
Shawn Andrews once worked at a post office and now works at Indiana State Prison, so he’s very familiar with scams.
But the deal that came in the mail from a company called Premier Solutions out of Van Buren, Arkansas still sounded good.
“I’m not gonna say I didn’t think about it, but that price, $10.00 per envelope, that’s kind of steep don’t you think,” Andrews said.
Little did he know the deal to make $5,000 a week stuffing envelopes was part of a scam that’s been an ongoing headache 600 miles away.
“Premier Solutions is the most recent incarnation of a company that started out called Home Business Systems… in 2005, we filed a lawsuit….to enjoin that organization from taking part in these practices where they lied about how much money you could expect to earn,” said Jim DePriest with the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office.
But, despite the Arkansas Attorney General’s lawsuit, the letters are still coming;
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